Film, Grey Zone and the Holocaust Making History, January 23 Dr Anna Hájková
Rosenstrasse (2003), dir. Margarete von Trotta http://movieweb.com/movie/rosenstrasse/trailer/
Kitsch is the German word for trash, and is used in English to describe particularly cheap, vulgar and sentimental forms of popular and commercial culture
Boy in Striped Pyjamas, dir. Mark Herman, 2008
Claude Lanzmann’a Shoah (1985) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXweT1BgQMk Abraham Bomba, the barber in Treblinka
Schindler’s List, dir. Steven Spielberg, 1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgBbF2HBpHc
Factuality/art Historical dimension art Night Porter Grey Zone In Darkness Boy in striped pyjamas
Grey Zone, dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2001 How is violence negotiated in the film? What is shown, what not? Where does the camera stop?
The Sonderkommando photos
Son of Saul, dir. László Nemes, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nln8Q4fgI-8
Waltz with Bashir (2008), Ari Folman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylzO9vbEpPg